The Samsung Galaxy S5 lineup was wild:

It is/was required for vendors to use the AI PC / Copilot+ label and Microsoft "invented" the key-sequence.
src: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112500/microsoft-ai-pc-intel-windows-copilot-key-requirements

nope, the hardware / keyboard controller sends a complete key sequence instead of a distinguishable key-up and key-down event. The OS can interpret that sequence as it sees fit, but you loose the physical key-up signal when you release the key with your finger.

There's a common saying in Germany that applies. Basically translates to: "Those Brits are crazy", but the literal translation would be: "The Brits are spinning" (yarn).

Obelix knows best.

This is a development kit, so the transmitted signals / pinout could have nothing in common with regular usb-c and they just needed more lanes than one usb-c cable can provide, leading them to develop this monstrosity.

Similar to the PCIe extenders that use USB3 male to male or HDMI as their connector / cable.

It's arguably worse, because Samsung has full control over software, hardware, and firmware of their devices.
Even if MS would like to fix this mess, they can't.

Adblock is digital self defense against malware for your pc, as well as your mind.

https://xcancel.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1569083806224715776

Marketing said it has to be a dedicated key, engineers were stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Yes that's how I understood it. You can't fix a missing key-up signal on the OS/driver level.
This isn't Microsoft's first offense, btw: https://github.com/Rast1234/copilot_key_on_my_keyboard?tab=readme-ov-file#how-these-keys-work

In other news, there are also efforts from a lot of chinese companies to establish the GPMI connector, aka. wide boi usb-c.

won't get better

You can get a 2020 M1 / 2022 M2 Macbook air for ~400€, that will mop the floor with all new hardware in that price range released even today (completely fanless/noiseless btw.). It also has decent linux support via asahi and Apple will still probably provide 5+ years of macOS updates anyway.

• geekbench: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/16388159?baseline=16471197
• ebay.de sold macbooks: https://www.ebay.de/sch/111422/i.html?_fsrp=1&_udlo=150&rt=nc&_nkw=macbook+air+%28m1%2Cm2%29&_sacat=111422&_sop=13&LH_PrefLoc=3&LH_Sold=1&LH_ItemCondition=1000%7C2010%7C1500%7C2020%7C2030%7C2500%7C3000
• random lenovo: https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/lenovo+v15+g5+83gw00a7ge+820626

The simple trick to owning nice hardware is to never give vendors your money directly, let others burden the depreciation.

Redirector - redirect pages to where you want them to go.

• make the youtube subscription feed the first thing you see / convert shorts without needing another addon
• fix stupid machine translated localizations of pages looking at you learn.microsoft.com or reddit does this too now
• overwrite / define custom duckduckgo search !bangs
• remove tracking parameters from urls
• etc...

Example Usage: https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector?tab=readme-ov-file#examples

This extension is how I learned to love RegEx.

There's an app for that: https://github.com/zacharee/Tweaker

You'll need to use adb to grant special permissions that an app can't request on its own.

adb shell pm grant com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
adb shell pm grant com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS
adb shell pm grant com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.DUMP

• Audio & Sound --> Disable Safe Audio Warning --> Disabled
• Persist Options --> Checkbox Disable Safe Audio Warning

I've made an update edit: Some hardware vendors fucked up when to send the key-up-sequence apparently so now every keyboard can behave differently. I don't know if this makes the situation better or worse.

this isn't properly remapped and depending on implementation of the key-up events by the keyboard vendor, requires an ugly time delay hack.

qed. https://github.com/Rast1234/copilot_key_on_my_keyboard?tab=readme-ov-file#the-bad

There's a better measure for teto: Birdbrain cover ranking by how powerful the first "Fuck" is. https://bsky.app/profile/nocallia.bsky.social/post/3lx3jjjvkrs2q

afaik: the complete sequence is triggered when when the copilot key is pressed. You'd intercept the F23-up immediately --> no way to detect when the physical key is released.

In order to load a custom OS you first must be able to unlock the bootloader ofthe device. The list of OEMs allowing that is sadly getting smaller and smaller and vendors are becoming actively hostile towards custom firmware development.
see: https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame